Setting Quotes

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After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like plowing, housework makes the ground ready for the germination of family life. The kids will not invite a teacher home if beer cans litter… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
The air grows cool and darkles, The Rhine flows calmly on; The mountain summit sparkles In the light of the setting sun. — Heinrich Heine
One begins to realize that art... in setting out to express nature with ever growing accuracy, teaches us to look, to perceive, to feel. The… — Georges Clemenceau
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters, and events that… — Deepak Chopra
I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love. — Claude Monet
By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard.… — Elizabeth Janeway
Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them. — Thomas Hobbes
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should… — David Hume
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring her happiness; she… — Susan Faludi
Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. — Theocritus
Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the… — Jim Elliot
The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
I was more comfortable somehow in a European Tour setting. I have never really felt comfortable in the States and therefore I have never won… — Colin Montgomerie
Krishna was conceived in the womb of Devaki mysteriously as the sun setting in the West imparts his rays to the rising moon in the… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining. — John Muir
These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's… — Lincoln Hall
God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and… — Norman Vincent Peale
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world… — Frederick Lenz

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